Eurid,the company behind .EU domain,announced that Slovakia topped forty thousand .EU domain names.Slovakia is in terms of registrations,the fourteenth largest market in the European Unions.

You can read the press release after the jump :

"Slovak companies and residents have to date registered more than forty thousand .eu domain names, according to EURid, the registry for the .eu top-level domain (TLD). In terms of registrations, Slovakia is the fourteenth largest market in the European Union, behind Hungary and Greece, ahead of Denmark and Ireland.

In Slovakia, .eu has shown stable growth over the past few years, with a registration growth rate steadily above the EU average of 5.4 %. Many .eu domain name holders believe that .eu is a natural alternative to their national TLD and often prefer it to other – mainly generic – TLDs, such as .com. In 2012, .eu grew by 23.2% in Slovakia, with only Malta and Slovenia having slightly higher growth rates.